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On World Heart Day, American Heart Association recognizes role of patient/provider relationships in managing heart failure
The American Heart Association offers the new My HF Guide to help patients manage their condition and encourage open dialogue with their healthcare provider. Queen Latifah, whose mother has heart failure, joins AHA at UCLA Health to honor heart failure heroes and their important role in a patient’s journey.
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American Heart Association Launches +color to Help Transform the American Diet
DALLAS, TX, Sept. 21, 2016– In a landmark nationwide effort, the American Heart Association (AHA) is announcing a new initiative called +color, focusing on the positive health impact of fruits and vegetables. The health impact of +color may be simple yet...
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American Heart Association Recommends Standards to Improve Dispatcher-Assisted CPR
DALLAS, TX, September 16, 2016 – The American Heart Association – the world’s leading voluntary health organization devoted to fighting cardiovascular disease – published recommendations this month that set standards for timely and high quality delivery...
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AHA CEO Nancy Brown ‘disappointed’ by industry’s fight against sugary drink tax
DALLAS, Sept 14, 2016 — Philadelphia leaders voted earlier this year to expand early childhood education access and to provide additional funding for parks and recreation. They chose to fund that work through a 1.5 cents per ounce soda tax. The American...
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AHA and PCORI Launch Challenge to Identify New Research Questions Aimed at Improving Care for Cardiovascular Diseases
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announce today a new Researcher and Clinician Challenge to identify or suggest critical but unanswered questions facing cardiovascular patients, caregivers and their healthcare providers that should be addressed through additional research. This collaboration, executed through the AHA Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine, seeks to uncover questions that can be answered by studies that leverage comparative clinical effectiveness research – research comparing the benefits and harms of alternate health care methods – with a precision medicine approach that takes into account individual characteristics.
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Two New Resuscitation Alliances Announce Decisive Goal to Increase Global Cardiac Arrest Survival Rates by 50 Percent
DALLAS, September 1, 2016 – A cohort of international health organizations, resuscitation leaders, and emergency medical systems that includes the American Heart Association (AHA) – the world’s leading voluntary health organization devoted to fighting cardiovascular disease – today announced the establishment of the Global Resuscitation Alliance, declaring a bold goal of increasing cardiac arrest survival rates by 50 percent.
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New initiative aims to reduce repeat heart attacks
Every 42 seconds someone in the U.S. has a heart attack. Just after noon on March 26, 2016, Julie Kubala, become one of those statistics. She’s working now to ensure she doesn’t become a different one – about 21 percent of women and 17 percent of men age 45 and older will have another heart attack within five years of their first one.
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Baseball Hall of Famer comes out swinging against heart disease
DALLAS, July 21, 2016 — Baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew knows he is lucky to be alive. Last fall, a heart attack, cardiac arrest and heart failure left him with a weakened heart and with a machine keeping blood pumping through his body. It also left...
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Nationwide Retailers Supporting Heart Health Through American Heart Association Point-of-Purchase Fundraising Campaign
Dallas, July 11, 2016 – In support of the American Heart Association’s mission to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, several nationwide retailers are activating their support for the AHA’s Life Is Why We Give™ fundraising...
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The American Heart Association Announces Strategic Collaboration with Amazon Web Services to Advance Precision Cardiovascular Medicine with AWS Cloud
DALLAS – July 7, 2016 – The American Heart Association (AHA) today announces a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), a leading cloud computing infrastructure, to enable and advance discoveries in cardiovascular science and medicine...